This is the New World Report. I'm John Batchel with Professor Evan Ellis at the U.S. Army War College, Strategic Studies Institute. We march to the sound of elections. The election upcoming in Colombia will prevent

Javier Gustavo Petro from running again because of the Constitution.

That doesn't mean he can be ruled out as a factor.

He's a troubled man.

There are many ways to say this, but the anecdotes of his behavior

suggests this as a man who has lost control of his opinions and emotions and

personality, and now and again makes threats that are so completely fantastic, I don't repeat

them. In any event, there is an election cycle underway, and a man named Miguel Aribé, a young man, 39 years old, weeks before was shot in the head by a 14 or 15-year-old

child who was given that assignment by a fixer for the narco-terrorist gangs that dominate the whole of Central America

and South America. That investigation continues. What is important is that Miguel Ribe is said

to be in rehab from a bullet to the brain that is not a promising prognosis.

In the event, this is not just about Aribé, whose last name suggests the previous president

Alvaro Aribi, but they're not related.

The other Aribe, the older man, who has been president, is now giving out the opinion that he will run as vice president.

The Constitution forbids him to run as president again.

He will run as vice president of the country.

The opinion is whoever he picks or whoever picks him to be their running mate will win the election.

Professor, this is all anecdote and talk of Colombia.

The situation that I read is that the country is topsy-turvy under Petro.

The amount of drug activity has increased.

The amount of terrorism has increased. the threats of the gangs has increased.

In other words, there's no single rule about Colombia's behavior.

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